Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 23, 2008 @02:02AM from the that's-a-lot-of-hats dept.

ruphus13 writes "The Linux Foundation's recently released report claims, '... it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today's dollars with today's software development costs.' The article states why this might actually understate the value of the distros, though, since it doesn't include the power of the brand and the goodwill value. 'There were several approaches that the Linux Foundation employed to reach the $10.8 billion dollar figure, including calculating the number of lines of code in Fedora 9 (204,500,946), and using an average programmer's salary of $75,662.08 — as determined by the US Department of Labor — to measure development costs ... On the balance sheets of Coca Cola and many other huge corporations, you find goodwill listed as a major asset.'"

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RPM x DEB by marcosdumay · 2008-10-23 05:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Dependency hell is not a feature of the packaging format. To make it go away, you'd need a huge team of developers focused only on making your distro work, and the proper environment.
Even Debian testing sometimes has dependency problems.

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